The symposium
is supported by the European project Roboskin.
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Confirmed
Keynote Speakers: Patrizia Marti (University of
Siena, Italy), Yorick Wilks
(University of Sheffield, UK), Giorgio Metta (IIT,
Italy - as keynote speaker of the AISB convention), see below titles and
abstracts.
Human-Robot
Interaction (HRI) is a growing research field with many application areas that
could have a big impact not only economically, but also on the way we live and
the kind of relationships we may develop with machines. Due to its
interdisciplinary nature different views and approaches towards HRI need to be
nurtured. This symposium will provide a platform to discuss collaboratively
recent findings and challenges in HRI.
The first
symposium on “New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction” was held as part of
AISB 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, see programme:
The symposium
organized in 2009 was characterized by excellent presentations as well as
extensive and constructive discussions of the research among the participants.
Different
categories of submissions are encouraged that reflect the different types of
research studies that are being carried out. The symposium will encourage a
diversity of views on HRI and different approaches taken. In the highly
interdisciplinary research field of HRI, a peaceful dialogue among such
approaches is expected to contribute to the synthesis of a body of knowledge
that may help HRI sustain its creative inertia that has drawn to HRI during the
past 15 years many researchers from HCI, robotics, psychology, the social
sciences, and other fields.
Topics of
interest include but are not limited to:
Developments
towards robot companions
User-centred robot design
Robots in
personal care and health care
Robots in
search and rescue
Sensors and
interfaces for HRI
Human-aware
robot perception
Dialogue and
multi-modal human-robot interaction
Robot
architectures for socially intelligent robots
HRI field
studies in naturalistic environments
Robot assisted
therapy
Robots in HRI
collaborative scenarios
Robots in
schools and in other educational environments
Robots as
personal assistants and trainers
Robot and
human personality
New methods
and methodologies to carry out and analyze human-robot interaction
Robots as
companions and helpers in the home
Robots as
assistive technology
Long-term or
repeated interaction with robots
Creating
relationships with robots
Expressiveness
in robots
Sustaining the
engagement of users
Personalizing
robots and HRI interfaces
Human-robot
teaching
Robots that
learn socially and adapt to people
User
experience in HRI
User needs and
requirements for HRI
Robots as
autonomous companions
Robots as
remote-controlled tools
Embodied
interfaces for smart homes
Ethnography
and field studies
Cross-cultural
studies
The symposium
encourages submissions in any of the following categories. The submission should clearly state which category the
article falls under:
*N* Completed
empirical studies reporting novel research findings
In this category we
encourage submissions where a substantial body of findings has been accumulated
based on precise research questions or hypotheses. Such studies are expected to
fit within a particular experimental framework (e.g. using qualitative or
quantitative evaluation techniques) and the reviewing of such papers will apply
relevant (statistical and other) criteria accordingly. Findings of such studies
should provide novel insights into human-robot interaction studies.
*E*
Exploratory studies
Exploratory studies
are often necessary to pilot and fine-tune the methodological approach,
procedures and measures. In a young research field such as HRI with novel
applications and various robotic platforms, exploratory studies are also often
required to derive a set of concrete research questions or hypothesis, in particular
concerning issues where there is little related theoretical and experimental
work. Although care must be taken in the interpretation of findings from such
studies, they may highlight issues of great interest and relevance to peers.
*S* Case
studies
Due to the nature
of many HRI studies, a large-scale quantitative approach is often neither
feasible nor desirable. However, case study evaluation can provide meaningful
findings if presented appropriately. Thus, case studies with only one
participant, or a small group of participants, are encouraged if they are
carried out and analyzed in sufficient depth.
*P* Position
papers
While categories N,
E and S require reporting on HRI studies or experiments, position papers can be
conceptual or theoretical, providing new interpretations of known results.
Also, in this category we consider papers that present new ideas without having
a complete study to report on. Papers in this category will be judged on the
soundness of the argument presented, the significance of the ideas and the
interest to the HRI community.
*R*
Replication of HRI studies
To develop as a
field, HRI findings obtained by one research group need to be replicated by
other groups. Without any additional novel insights, such work is often not publishable.
Within this category, authors will have the opportunity to report on studies
that confirm or disconfirm findings from experiments that have already been
reported in the literature. This category includes studies that report on
negative findings.
*D* Live HRI
Demonstrations
Contributors may
have an opportunity to provide live demonstrations (live or via Skype), pending
the outcome of negotiations with the local organization team. The demo should
highlight interesting features and insights into HRI. Purely entertaining
demonstrations without significant research content are
discouraged.
*Y* System
Development Research in this category includes e.g. the design and development
of new sensors, robot designs and algorithms for socially interactive robots.
Extensive user studies are not necessarily required in this category.
If authors
feel that their particular paper does not fit any of the above
mentioned categories, then they should indicate this when submitting
their paper so that the reviewing process can take this into consideration.
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Adaptive Systems Research
Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK (use K.Dautenhahn "@" herts
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regarding the workshop)
Programme
Chairs
Kerstin Dautenhahn (Programme Chair, K.Dautenhahn "@" herts
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We invite
unpublished, original work as extended abstracts (up to 3 pages) or full papers
of up to 8 pages (double column). In category *D* we invite one page
descriptions detailing the demo and its associated research questions. In
addition to full paper presentations the symposium will also include panels,
invited talks, and poster presentations. The symposium schedule will emphasize
critical discussions of the presented research as well as wider issues that are
important to HRI.
Please send
the PDF submissions to Kerstin Dautenhahn (K.Dautenhahn "@" herts
"." ac "." uk) (files bigger than
2MB will not be accepted) including in the email text the following
information: title of paper, author list, contact
email, name of attached PDF file. All submissions will be peer reviewed.
Authors of
accepted contributions will be asked to prepare the final versions (up to 8
pages) for inclusion in the symposium proceedings (according to the AISB
2010
formatting guidelines - templates will be available later on the AISB 2010
convention website). All accepted contributions will
be published in the symposium proceedings. The best symposium papers (according
to the reviewers) will be invited to submit a book chapter for a book published
by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
11 January 2010 :
Submission deadline
11 February
2010: Deadline for notifications sent to authors
1 March 2010 : Camera read copies due
31 March - 1
April 2010: Symposium
Please see the
AISB 2010 website where information will be made available
on registration, accomodation etc.
Adriana Tapus, USC, USA
Alan Wing,
University of Birmingham, UK
Aris Alissandrakis,
Tokio Institute of Technology, Japan
Astrid Weiss,
University of Salzburg, Austria
Ben Krose, UVA, the Netherlands
Ben Robins,
University of Hertfordshire, UK
Bipinchandra Bhakta,
University of Leeds, UK
Christoph Bartneck,
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Dirk Wollherr, TUM, Germany
Dong-Soo Kwon, KAIST, South Korea
Farshid Amirabdollahian,
University of Hertfordshire, UK
Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Hatice Kose-Bagci,
University of Hertfordshire, UK
Hisato Kobayashi, Hosei
University, Japan
Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, USA
Julie Adams,
Vanderbilt University, USA
Karl F. MacDorman, Indiana University, USA
Kerstin Severinson Eklundh, KTH, Sweden
Kheng Lee Koay,
University of Hertfordshire, UK
Kolja Kuehnlenz,
TUM, Germany
Matthias Scheutz, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria
Michael A.
Goodrich, Brigham Young University, USA
Michael
Hillman, Bath Institute of Medical Engineering, UK
Michael L.
Walters, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Monica Nicolescu, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Nuno Otero, University of Minho,
Portugal
Reid Simmons,
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sandra Hirche, TUM, Germany
Sylvain Calinon, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy
Takayuki
Kanda, ATR, Japan
Tatsuya
Nomura, Ryukoku University, Japan
Wolfram Erlhagen, University of Minho, Portugal
Yiannis Demiris,
Imperial College, UK
Yorick Wilks,
University of Sheffield, UK
Yoshihiro
Miyake, Tokio Institute of Technology, Japan
Keynote Speakers (confirmed)
Patrizia
Marti (University of Siena, Italy)
Title:
Expressive robots and expressive interaction with robots: a design perspective
Abstract:
Robot
technology is surprisingly close to achieving autonomous bonding and sustained
socialization with human beings. The concept of sociality in robots has taken
on a wide variety of nuances and meanings that basically depend on the ability
of machines to support the social model they refer to, and the interaction
scenarios they can sustain. Within this framework several kinds of robots have
been developed with the purpose to provide the human interlocutors with a
“natural interface” and interaction possibilities.
While the
definition of a phenomenology of artificial expressions and emotions of robotic
creatures is beyond the scope of the keynote, a shift in focus will be taken
from the design of expressive robots to the design of expressive interactions
with robots as a means to support meaning construction and stimulate a natural
interaction with human beings. Design and evaluation cases will be shown to analyse the potentials of new interaction paradigms enabled
by the use of smart fabrics and materials.
Yorick
Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
Title: Is a
Companion a distinctive kind of relationship with a machine?
Abstract:
The talk
starts from the perspective of the EC Companions project, and sets out what its
aims were to model a new kind of human-computer relationship based on long-term
interaction, with some tasks included but not being inherently task-based. A
demonstration of its functionality will be given but the main purpose of the
talk is a discussion of what it is people want from such a relationship and
what evidence we have for
whatever we conclude. Is politeness important? Is an attempt at
emotional sympathy important or achievable? Does a user want a consistent
personality in a Companion or a variety of personalities? Should we be talking
more in terms of a "cognitive prosthesis (or orthosis)?"
---something to extract, organise, and locate the
user's knowledge or personal information---rather than attitudes?
Giorgio Metta (IIT, Italy)
Title: From
biology to robots: the RobotCub project
Abstract:
Simulating and
getting inspiration from biology is certainly not a new endeavor in robotics (Atkeson et al., 2000; Sandini,
1997; Metta et.al. 1999).
However, the use of humanoid robots as tools to study human cognitive skills it
is a relatively new area of the research which fully acknowledges the
importance of embodiment and the interaction with the environment for the
emergence of motor skills, perception, sensorimotor
coordination, and cognition (Lungarella, Metta, Pfeifer, & Sandini,
2003). The guiding philosophy – and main motivation – is that cognition cannot
be hand-coded but it has to be the result of a developmental process through
which the system becomes progressively more skilled and acquires the ability to
understand events, contexts, and actions, initially dealing with immediate
situations and increasingly
acquiring a predictive capability (Vernon, Metta Sandini, 2007). To pursue this research, a humanoid robot (iCub) has been developed as result of the collaborative
project RobotCub (http://www.robotcub.org)
supported by the European Commission through the "Cognitive Systems and
Robotics" Unit E5 of IST. The iCub has been
designed with the goal of studying human cognition and therefore embeds a
sophisticated set of sensors providing vision, touch, proprioception,
audition as well as a large number of actuators (53) providing dexterous motor
abilities. The project is "open", in the sense of open-source, to
build a critical mass of research groups contributing with their ideas and
algorithms to advance knowledge on human cognition (N. Nosengo
2009). The aim of the talk will be: i) to present the
approach and motivation, ii) the illustrated the technological choices made and
iii) to present some initial results obtained.
References
Atkeson, C. G., Hale, J. G., Pollick, F., Riley, M., Kotosaka,
S., Schaal, S., et al. (2000). Using Humanoid Robots to Study
Human Behavior. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 46-56.
Sandini, G. (1997, April). Artificial
Systems and Neuroscience. Paper presented at the Otto and Martha Fischbeck Seminar on Active Vision, Berlin, Germany.
Sandini, G., G. Metta,
and J. Konczak. Human Sensori-motor Development and Artificial Systems. in International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence,
Robotics and Intellectual Human Activity Support(AIR&IHAS '97). 1997. RIKEN
- Japan.
D. Vernon, G. Metta, and G. Sandini. "A
Survey of Artificial Cognitive Systems: Implications for the Autonomous
Development of Mental Capabilities in Computational Agents," IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 151-180, 2007
N. Nosengo. “Robotics: The bot that
plays ball” Nature Vol 460, 1076-1078 (2009) | doi:10.1038/4601076a